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a little bit

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second all in favor all right

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all in favor

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aye thank you

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call to order government operation the

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parsa item is called for public hearing

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to a man city ordinance 87

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0.6-1 residency requirement from this

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quarter to you

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all right so we've been talking about

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this for a while and the fact that um

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you know we're low on staff

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and

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right now the

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requirement to work for the cities that

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you live in the city or get a waiver so

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at this point in time like to entertain

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us

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expanding the footprint of who where

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people can live in order to work for the

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city

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as i've said before that

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everyone is experiencing the same

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problem that we

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are having

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and other folks as well other

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municipalities and businesses etc are

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also expanding footprint where their

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employees can live in order to come here

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so i'm putting this forward to actually

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have a

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public hearing regarding the residency

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requirements and i'd also like to point

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out that it has not always been required

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that you live in the city of schenectady

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in order to work for the city of

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schenectady this particular ordinance

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was changed in 1988. so clearly at that

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time um there was a time when we didn't

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need it or wasn't necessarily a time

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when maybe the city was had many more

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people here and therefore we had a

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larger pool of people um

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to choose from and now we're at a

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different place so

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i'd like to just put this forward to uh

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for a public hearing

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let's change the code

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any comments any questions regarding

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this public hearing to amanda city

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residency

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second all in favor

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right

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the next item uh discussion on

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implication of the employee misconduct

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and supported field um as i understand

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this speaking of the mayor there is a um

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ongoing investigation

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so this would need to go into an

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executive session

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you can't hear me i didn't hear the last

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part of it this would need to go an

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executive session

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so we need a more complete momentum

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second all in favor aye aye

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i'd like to call to order city

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development and planning we have four

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items on the agenda the first item is a

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hundred and one forty-five

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uh street historic landmark

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designation i'll see miss diaz here

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is there anyone here to speak to that

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at this point i think it's just

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specific questions that i could answer

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we're

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just moving through the process

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i think the planning commission

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reviewed this application

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i think was referred to the planning

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commission

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and at the june 15th meeting

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they uh issued a resolution of support

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to designate the site of historic

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landmarks and that's coming back to city

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council for

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action if the city council is so

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inclined

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are there any questions

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i'll move it second all those in favor

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all right

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okay the next item on the agenda is the

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sunnyview belmont avenue rezoning

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planning commission referral again ms

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diaz who's not here uh mr coleman would

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you speak to this as well uh i will can

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i get to the page sorry

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again there was a public hearing already

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on this uh the city council had referred

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this to the planning commission uh it

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involved the rezoning of the parcels uh

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it was considered by the planning

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commission at the june 15 meeting and

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the commission issued a unanimous

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recommendation to the council to approve

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the zoning change of the parcels uh with

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the additional finding planning

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commission looks forward to working with

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sunnyview to improve the overall

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efficiency and code compliance of their

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are there any questions

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i'll move it second

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the next item is to authorize the mayor

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as his designate to award the brandywine

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avenue safety improvements project

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to carolina industries ms

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uh wong award that we have here is a

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rebid the project was originally bid

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over a month ago however it was bid with

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the add all included in the base fit the

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number that we got was similar i would

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say to what we have here was over 2

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million

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budget for the project is not that large

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we were able to secure some safety funds

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to bring it up however still they will

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only cover the base bid i will say that

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i have talked to some people who are

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experts in the area about the success of

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raised intersections which was the base

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to date without going on the record for

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who i talked with the costs associated with them right now

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do not weigh the investment

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they are large precast panels that get

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put in

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to the intersection turns the entire

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intersection to a slightly raised

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concrete area and you see that the cost

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for that would be a little over half a

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million dollars

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that would be half a million dollars

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that the city would have to bear

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entirely due to the budget

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and like i said talking to people

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we are going to be reconstructing

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striping

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new signals really trying to you know

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improve the with typical measures so i

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don't think that half a million dollar

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investment is worth it at this time we

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can probably move that money up

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elsewhere and do other improvements so

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i'm comfortable moving forward with the

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base bit the reason i just explained

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bids would shift depending on if we were

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to take the alternate so i just want to

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make sure that everyone's aware of that

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these are the closest bits in my tenure

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if you do the math they're actually

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on a 1.7 million dollar bid i mean

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uh i am comfortable moving forward with

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the base bid with calling in without the

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at all uh any questions at the time

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uh the only thing is to come up with

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i i don't know how the schedule is going

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to work as you can tell from other

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even if we were to start this year with

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components signal components mainly and

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things that involve metal or brackets

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for computers they are all on huge lead

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and so it may not be the wisest that we

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immediately we may want to order do our

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shop drawing and then start right in the

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spring i will you know make the mayor

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aware but i just want to make sure this

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is step one i don't want to promise that

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we're gonna have a shovel in the ground

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in september

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because if you can't get the signals and

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some of the components it kind of might

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leave us in this half-baked situation i

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have to find out

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any questions

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i'll move this second all those in favor

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thank you thank you

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um

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and the last time on the agenda is uh

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g's easement agreement with the town of

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rotterdam mr colvin thank you um

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the city owns a property in the town

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around it rotterdam it's identified as

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section block and lots 60.17-2-26

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it's a

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vacant uh parcel it's approximately 7.77

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the town of rotterdam has approached the

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they have a drainage

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project that they're looking to put

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in order to move ahead with it they're

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seeking an easement from the city so

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that they can access the property

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for the purposes of the project as i

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it will have negligent impact on the

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city as i mentioned it is vacant land

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i included a survey

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showing the area in which

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the easement would be covered

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i'd spoken to paul faun

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about this he doesn't see any impact on

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his

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projects or

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his use of any properties in rotterdam

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related to this

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so looking to

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potentially enter into an agreement

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mayor

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some ongoing negotiations with the town

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of rotterdam a couple things where this

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is part of it so before the council

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votes on this i'd like to review

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some of the things that are

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part of ongoing negotiations so that

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would require

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just a brief

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time and executive session okay well then at this point in time i'd

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entertain a motion to go into the

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executive session

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second all those in favor

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okay